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Caleb Pusey House, 15 Race Street (Landingford Plantation), Upland, Delaware County, PA

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Caleb Pusey House, 15 Race Street (Landingford Plantation), Upland, Delaware County, PA

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Summary

Significance: Considered the earliest surviving English-built house in Pennsylvania, the Caleb Pusey House was built in the vernacular tradition of 16th and early 17th c. English models. It is also the only home extant in America known to have been visited by William Penn.
Survey number: HABS PA-1079
Building/structure dates: 1683 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1696 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1752 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Penn, William
Friends of Caleb Pusey House, Incorporated
Silverman, Eleni, historian
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Waite, John G, delineator
Milner, John D, delineator
Price & Dickey, architects, delineator
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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